Talk:Fred Saberhagen bibliography

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Lord Almighty. I have this day corrected all of the links to the Free Samples of Saberhagen's short fiction available over at the Baen Books website. All of the old links were rendered moot when Baen Books changed their overall site name from www.baenebooks.com over to www.baen.com or www.baen.com/baenebooks. This certainly isn't the first time they've done this, and I suspect that they alternate from one to the other every few years. The problem has been compounded since there no longer seem to be separate web addresses for the separate chapters within each book! Glad that's over, until they do it again... Tom Dean (talk) 17 February 2017

Holmes-Dracula File title not Saberhagen's pick?
I have recently re-read The Holmes-Dracula File with an eye to this issue, and I don't think the fact that Dracula is the first narrator is exactly a "surprise plot point". Before he unmasks himself as Narrator #1 (Narrator #2 being Watson), there are numerous hints by Saberhagen that could tip off any vamp fan: the narrator notes that he can tell, without seeing it, that a cart outside his room is being pulled by a gelded horse with a sore foot; he is fatigued in the day and stronger at night; he tries (unsuccessfully) to hypnotize one of his captors; he cannot see his own reflection, etc. I think unless someone can find an actual source for this claim, it should be removed. Femme du Pays (talk) 19:31, 1 November 2020 (UTC)


 * I've now read several interviews with Saberhagen which touch on the Dracula series, as well as listened to the Hour 25 LosCon2003 interview with him. (Links to most of the interviews are here: http://berserkerfan.org/fred.htm). I haven't found anything to back up the claim that Saberhagen opposed the title of The Holmes-Dracula File. As for the title giving away an important plot point, the title just gives away the fact that Dracula will, eventually, be a major character. As I pointed out above, an attentive reader will notice that there is something odd about Narrator #1. In addition to the strange things that I already listed, there is: 1) the unusual significance of a wooden--not lead or iron--weapon (in the very first sentence! p. 1); 2) "more strength than any victimized old man should have been able to command" (p. 7); 3) "This [steel cart] was an impossibly wrong place for him to get the rest he craved. But just where would the right place be?" (p. 11)


 * All this suggests that Narrator #1 may be a vampire. But which vampire? Not necessarily Dracula! In fact, a later novel (Seance for a Vampire) has Dracula and Holmes team up to hunt down two other vampires in England. But if you are familiar with The Dracula Tape or other books in the series, you will pick up on hints such as "...if he had been at all susceptible to fear..." (p.3) or "...when the torture started, presently, they would find him no trembling virgin in that field of endeavour either..." (p. 7). On p. 38, Narrator #1 overhears his captors examining his papers, which say that his name is Corday, an alias used by Dracula in The Dracula Tape and in An Old Friend of the Family. So Saberhagen is giving the reader plenty of hints, although he doesn't fully unmask Narrator #1 until p. 81.


 * Since I cannot find any evidence to support the claim that Saberhagen opposed the title, and some reason to think that he would not have had a problem with it, I am removing the comment about it in the article.Femme du Pays (talk) 17:46, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

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why bulleted entries rather than numbered?
Howard from NYC (talk) 00:02, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

question about formatting... why bulleted entries rather than numbered?

example: "The Berserker Attack"

I'm taking no action because there might be some unspecified justification